My summer reading list?

Question

My school just sent out the reading list for 12th grade AP Lit and I need to read at least 2 books off the list:
Labryinths by Jorge Luis Borges
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
A Potrait Of An Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce
The Trial by Franz Kafka
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

What do you recommend I read? I don't really know anything about most of these books so if you've read any of them could you tell me which ones I might enjoy?

Answer 1

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is excellent. Very easy to read, very interesting, great characters. I found it superior to the film version.

Happy reading! :-)

Answer 2

Labyrinths is a collection of short stories. They are strange but very beautiful and short. It may not be easy understanding them all but they are fun to read anyway.
Catch 22 is about the second world war. A great book, very serious and vry funny at the same time. You should read it.
The Trial is a great book. It is a very strange story about a man being taken on a trial with no apparent reason. It is an unusual story, quite strange but it is a classic and very good book. A good choice if you are for something thought provoking.
A portrait of the artist as a young man and 100 years of solitude are both classics. H?owever it is possible that you find them a little irrelevant to you if you are not used in much reading.
I suggest Catch 22 and then either Labyrinths or the Trial.

Answer 3

I really enjoyed One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. I hated the Joy Luck Club. Catch 22 isnt bad either. Can you chose any other books or are you stuck to these choices. If you can choose others, I would go with 1984 by George Orwell, or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.

Answer 4

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is the best book!!! Also the best movie. Read the book first. I wish that would have been on my reading list in 12th grade. The Joy Luck Club is also a great read. I have not heard of the other choices.

Answer 5

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

i liked that book out of all the books i read throughout last year (junior year), im not sure what your into but my opinion on the joy luck club is that it sucked, i dont know about the others sorry

Answer 6

Cuckoo and Joy Luck are both excellent, interesting reads. They flow nicely and have enough meat to them that you could easily write about either of them when school starts again. I've just reread Invisible--shorter than some of the others, but interesting. It does have some off parts and uses vintage vocabulary, but still an ok read.

I had to read Heller's book in my college history class, ugh. Hated that one more than any of the others, so thumbs down.

Happy reading!

Answer 7

I'd personally recommend picking two of the "classics." Not that the more modern books won't be enjoyable (I've read several, and they are), but a solid knowledge of the "classics" will be of MUCH more use to you in college. As an M.A. grad in English, I'll tell you that you'll be missing out on some key moments in your college English classes if you don't read Invisible Man, Catch-22, or A Portrait of an Artist.
Cheers-
ct

Answer 8

I enjoyed Joy Luck Club immensely and haev heard a lot of good reviews of 100 Yrs of Solitude

Answer 9

I highly recommend Joy Luck Club and I love Kafka, esp. The Metamorphosis (I know it's not on the list but you should read it if you have time).

Answer 10

Kesey and Heller are the most enjoyable. They are both good stories with a lot of humor.